Electoral politics is a sham that has created the crisis we live today: over 11 million people in this country live under a specific form of state terror, under the constant threat of indefinite imprisonment and deportation. This is the direct result of neoliberal policies that create mass displacement all over the world, and then criminalize those who migrate as a result. Politicians offer their “solutions” in the form of a cynical blackmail: vote for us and we will grant some migrants “relief”, or maybe, we will “reform” the system. Over and over again, we have seen that “relief” means sparing a select few at the expense of many others, and “reform” means increasing militarization and exploitation. Over and over again, we have seen that we cannot wait for elected officials and the corporate interests they represent to be part of the solution — because they are part of the problem.

In the name of fighting endless wars against endless manufactured enemies — the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on welfare — the corporate state labels some categories of people as unequal and exploitable. The official party line of Inauguration Day and state-sponsored Martin Luther King day celebrations offers hollow promises that racial subordination is a thing of the past, that the struggle for civil rights is over, that economic and racial justice exist in the world. On inauguration Day, turn away from the media spectacle — the galas, the tuxedos, the celebrities and expert commentators. Turn off your faith in the benevolent electoral system. We want a world with no cages, no borders, and no profit from the lives of human beings — we are building this world, we are not begging for it! We invite you smash your TV’s and join us in the streets!